Matt Mathers

Cancer centres in nearly every region of England reported significant rises in recruitment freezes to oncology posts over the past year, according to new figures shared with HSJ.

NHS England's failure to deliver recommended reforms to pathology services has cost the service billions of pounds in lost savings over the last decade, a senior peer who previously reviewed the sector has claimed.

Private providers have accused 10 integrated care boards of blocking access to eye care, which they argue is redirecting tens of thousands of patients to A&E and GPs.

Eleven trusts recorded swings of more than 20 percentage points on the headline waiting target for diagnostic tests over the past year.

A CEO who leads two South Yorkshire trusts has been appointed to run a third on an interim basis.

Nearly 100 staff at a Lancashire trust have been left in "limbo" for more than two years due to a troubled NHS England procurement process, which HSJ has learned is set to be run for a third time.

A leading hospital chief executive has championed in-house NHS technology that costs "a fraction" of major commercial systems - and said she does not use the federated data platform.

Andy Burnham should recognise that areas in the North of England other than Greater Manchester require more investment, the chief executive of a Tyneside trust has told HSJ.

The chief executive of a trust that has fallen 34 places in NHS England's provider performance league table has complained that the ranking fails to take into account its efforts to help neighbours.

One of the NHS's largest private providers, Spire Healthcare Group, has agreed to a £1bn takeover by a group of investment firms.